Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.